The Crucible

Question 1

Adamant

Answer 1

(adjective)- unshakable, or immovable, opposition the ball was adamant when it was in the box.

Question 2

Afflict

Answer 2

(verb)- humble, overthrow, to distress. The man was afflicted with the work he had to do.

Question 3

Beguile

Answer 3

(verb)- to lead by deception, hoodwink, to while away by some agreeable occupation. The group of men beguiled them all.

Question 4

Confounded

Answer 4

(adjective)- to bring to ruin, destroy, frustrate, are not for accomplishment but to put to shame. It confounded the teachers when the students all failed.

Question 5

Contention

Answer 5

(noun)- an act or instance of contending a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument. The judges finally came to an contention when they were trying to solve the case.

Question 6

Contiguous

Answer 6

(adjective)- being in actual contact, touching along a boundary or at a point: adjacent, next or near in time or sequence. The workers were contiguous to the bridge they had accomplish.

Question 7

Deference

Answer 7

(noun)- respect and esteem due a superior elder, affected or ingratiating regard for another’s wishes.

Question 8

Effrontery

Answer 8

(noun)- shameless, boldness: insolence. The dog walked effrontery when he didn’t catch the ball.

Question 9

Formidable

Answer 9

(adjective)- causing fear, dread or apprehension: having qualities that discourage, approach or attack: tending to inspire wonder. She was formidable that her parents will find out that she didn’t do what she was suppose to do when she was told to do so.

Question 10

Grave

Answer 10

(noun)- dig excavate: to crave or shape with a chisel: sculpture: to crave or cut into a hard surface: to impress or fix deeply. In the art class the students had to grave a clay sculpture into something that inspires them.

Question 11

Incredulous

Answer 11

(adjective)- unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true: not credulous: incredible: expressing incredulity. The Reese’ family had a hard time incredulous to what was told to them.

Question 12

Malign

Answer 12

(verb)- evil in nature, influence or effort: injurious: malignant, virulent: having or showing intense often vicious ill will: to utter injuriously misleading or false reports about.

Question 13

Manifestation

Answer 13

(noun)- the act, process or an intense instance of manifesting: something that manifests: one of the form in which an individual. The group was caught in the manifesting.

Question 14

Predilection

Answer 14

(noun)- a tendency to think favorably in something particular. Some girls and guys always have something predilection in their mines.

Question 15

Pretense

Answer 15

(noun)- pretending or make believe: a false show of something. Some people have many imagination that are sometimes pretense.

Question 16

Prodigious

Answer 16

(adjective)- extraordinary in size, amount, extent: wonderful or marvelous. Its amazing how prodigious the gem is in that bracelet.

Question 17

Purged

Answer 17

(verb)- to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable: to rid, clear or free. The investigators tried to purge what was on the crime sense to clean things up.

Question 18

Quail

Answer 18

(noun)- a small migratory.

Question 19

Rankle

Answer 19

(verb)- to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind. Noodles, the dog, kept rankling his owner with his toy that makes so much noise.

Question 20

Sniveling

Answer 20

(verb)- to weep or cry, to affect a tearful state. Around the world many people see others sniveling for so many reasons depending on what their issue is.